How to check a VK page for fakes?

Fake accounts are created for various purposes: to attract a user to illegal activities, to test a guy or girl’s loyalty, to scam people out of money, and much more. Fake accounts are the most negative aspect in the world of social networks, so you need to be as careful as possible when responding to messages received from suspicious accounts. After reading this article, you will learn how you can accurately determine the authenticity of a user’s page on VKontakte.

Why are fake VKontakte accounts created?

VKontakte is a social network with a daily audience of more than 30 million people. In fact, this is a real boon for scammers. If on the conditional Avito people cheat according to one scheme: by selling low-quality items and “tricks” with Avito delivery, then on VKontakte there are much more variations:

an invitation to become a pawnbroker of various prohibited substances;
direct sale of various prohibited substances;
an intermediary page between the “victim” and the fraudulent site;
advertising spam with a call to buy something or sign up for a service;
deception from the 18+ series and much more.

Many people even manage to be lured into banned terrorist organizations, sold into slavery, or a power of attorney is issued for their real estate. Fake account = scam.

Is it worth paying for a spy bot on VK?

So, what is a spy bot, how does it work, and how to enable it, we have discussed. You can find several more such bots on VK on the Internet, but they will all work similarly to those described above. Let's now look at how spying these bots really are, and whether it's worth paying for their services. So let's say our review.

Firstly , an obvious fact. All these bots are located on VKontakte and are serviced by the resources of this social network. What is the likelihood that with the help of these resources they will be able to obtain information that is truly confidential within VK? The probability is zero. The tools for creating VK bots are guaranteed not to allow you to obtain personal data that cannot be distributed. Thus, these bots can only receive information that can be distributed. Yes, it is not visible at first glance, but it is already publicly available.
Secondly , each such bot has a user agreement. For some, it is offered in the community that supports the bot, for others, it is displayed in the first message when contacting the bot, and for others, the link to it may be hidden somewhere from a superficial glance. Let's look at the user agreement of one of the spy comrades from the list above. For example, the first paragraph, which states that all data is taken from open sources in VK. If open, then what is espionage?
The third point does not comply with any consumer legislation standards, that is, if something is wrong, then it will not be possible to return the money.
And the seventh point confirms this. It also shows that the user does not pay for the bot’s spy services, but only makes a donation to the project. And for this donation he receives a pseudo-spy service as a bonus.
Having studied the description of the bot’s operating algorithm, you can understand that it does not extract anything secret. That is why it has such a low cost, and it is distributed so openly on the Internet and even on VK.

Probably, other bots will have a different user agreement, which will not even include all these points. But all these bots work the same way, using the same algorithm, so their functionality is the same. And they all receive information from open VK sources. This is our review of all these spy bots on VK.

So is it worth paying for a bot? If you want to quickly find out some information about a VK user, and don’t have time to delve into data analysis, then you can pay. Moreover, its price is purely symbolic. But you need to understand that you will not receive any secret confidential data, but something that is already available to everyone.

You may be interested in: How to read someone else's correspondence on VK.

How to check a VK page - is it a real account or a fake one?

Do the opposite. You know perfectly well what your friend’s classic page on VKontakte looks like: the main photo, status, several posts on the wall (not of an advertising nature), various music, possibly added videos, a filled-in hobbies column - in general, a complete set of information about how what a person looks like and is interested in.

The simplest and first sign of a fake is the emptiness of the profile. A couple of friends, no information, no identical photos - a classic version of a fake profile.

In addition, you can see whether the profile is open or closed. If the profile is closed and the person’s page can only be accessed through a friend request, this is a good sign, since it is important for “fake” people to gain as many gullible audiences as possible. There is simply no need for them to “close up.”

Basic ways to identify guests on VKontakte

In accordance with the policy of VKontakte developers, if the user has not expressed a desire for others to know that he has visited your profile, you will not know.

However, there are working ways to get around the restrictions and see your guests. With their help, visits from friends, as well as users not included in the contact list, will be revealed.

Some methods are based on social network functions. This is statistics, a rating of friends. Others are applications from third-party developers that work as traps and visit recorders.

Each method will be discussed later in the article.

Cool method - deleting your vk page (profile)

The first way to get acquainted with users viewing a profile is to supposedly delete your page.

Don’t be afraid - VK won’t reach the point of complete self-destruction, we’ll stop at the right moment.

Necessary:

Log into your account on your computer or laptop. The method does not work via telephone;
open settings;
go to “General”;
scroll the page;
click “delete your page”;
in response to the question why you are deleting your account, indicate that no one leaves comments. In response, the social network will write a message indicating the names of the two most frequent guests;
cancel deletion;
To get acquainted with the next two visitors, repeat the procedure.

The method works in the full version of the social network. Disadvantage: information about only two users is available at a time.

We use applications of the system itself - My guests, Your guests, My fans and guests, Guests and friends and others

A more effective way to track who visited my page is to launch special applications.

The programs provide the opportunity to:

see who logged into your profile;
analyze information about friends;
set traps;
make a rating of the guests' parts.

The most popular utilities are called:

my guests;
my fans and guests;
my guests and analysis.

The “My Guests” application can be downloaded from the “Games” section in. The start window will appear after starting the program and watching commercials. Install for free. Works on Android, iPhone.

Then:

go to the “Guests” tab;
view a list of people who have recently visited the page. First, those who use the application for a fee and promote their profile will appear. You will see a heart on your avatar and a link to “add as friend.” In addition to them, guests who are interested in your profile will be listed. Additionally, there is information about the time and date of the last visit.

The application has functions:

“buying” the interest of strangers to use social networks for promotion;
viewing the rating of active guests,
view which friends, when they visited you, were removed from the list of friends, blocked;
for an additional fee - stealth mode.

The next spy utility, “My Fans and Guests,” works on the principle of a trap:

copy the link to your profile;
insert it into information, contacts, and pin it on the wall. The application records all visitors.

Launches from here. The application has an invisible function.

The “My Guests and Analysis” program makes it clear who viewed your page.

Additional functions:

on the “Friends” tab, information appears when people from the list of friends viewed the profile or were online;
in “fans” the most active users for a certain time are highlighted and ordered;
the “sympathy analysis” lists the people who most like your friends;
group analysis.

VIP status in the application gives you the right to become invisible and exclude advertising. You can launch it here.

Other utilities that register visitors:

VK guests. Downloads from playmarket, works on android. Registers guests, fans, personal profile, creates traps;
real guests of VK. Available on play market. The application shows people who visited the page. Visit time is approximate;
guests and statistics from VKontakte. Tracks your friends' connections to your profile and creates traps. The guest viewing function works subject to the purchase of the application or daily access to statistics. Download address;
friends and guests - for VK. Installs on iPhone with iTunes. Shows real visitors;
I am a spy - my guests, friends like my page. Shows profile visitors, fans, and time of registration on the social network. An option to increase popularity is available. Launched from a social network.

Analysis of VKontakte statistics: likes, reposts, comments

In contact you can use the statistics function. This is a method for lovers of analytical activities with more than 100 subscribers.

By clicking on the graph icon, the user will receive information regarding:

total number of guests;
gender and age characteristics;
cities, countries of visitors;
the device from which you came to view the profile.

Data is sorted by time periods in the form of charts and graphs. There is information for today, week, month.

The information is useful for business accounts. Allows you to fine-tune your advertising.

Disadvantage: the data is not specified. It is impossible to find out the first and last name of the person who was on the page. Does not provide information about IP address, pop server. The method does not work if there are a small number of subscribers.

The easiest way to get reliable information about visitors is to view and analyze likes, comments, and reposts. The information is publicly available. It is accurate, but insufficient. Many users view pages but leave no trace of their presence. It is impossible to find them through likes and comments.

Friends rating

The next method involves viewing your contact's friends list. If he visited your page more often than others and interacted with you, you will be in the first positions in the list of friends.

To use your friends rating, you need to:

open a contact’s profile in VK;
go to his friends list;
find yourself.

Flaws:

the method is labor-intensive - you need to view the profiles of a large number of users;
information can only be obtained about your friends on the social network;
you have to determine which user you are interested in, only then receive confirmation of frequent interaction.

The advantage of the method is that it works on any type of device.

Using a link-trap or voting

An original way to see carefully hidden VKontakte visitors is to install a trap on the site.

For this:

find, launch the Pathfinder application. The function is available in other programs;
get the link;
post on a page, for example, in a profile;
if someone clicks on the link, the user will receive an alert.

The downside is that not everyone clicks on the links. The advantage is that information about all users who visited the page becomes available.

Similar programs:

my fans and guests;
VK guests.

You can understand that users are interested in the profile by creating a poll in VK.

Algorithm:

create a new entry;
in “more” select poll”;
indicate the name, voting period;
choose who can see the survey.

The topic should touch a nerve. In this case, people will express opinions.

Method using Odnoklassniki

The next method is also based on a trap.

The essence of the method is to publish a link to a Odnoklassniki profile on a VKontakte page. OK has a visitor registration function, which VK lacks. By transferring invisible guests from one social network to another, you can find out about them.

Mechanism of action:

open the page in OK;
copy the profile link from the browser bar;
paste on the wall;
so that others are filled with curiosity, the desire to go to a page on another network, add a beautiful photo, description;
pin the entry.

Disadvantages of this method:

the user and his guests must have an account in Odnoklassniki;
Perhaps the person came in without a link.

How does an avatar “fire” a scammer?

A fake account can be completely different in terms of avatar. Some people use a photo of a successful person on a yacht, while others, as in the case shown below, just use a picture.

And how can you determine whether an account is fake or not? If we see a picture and nothing else, we immediately label the account a fake. If we see a photograph of a rich guy in an expensive car or a beautiful girl at an elite resort, we always make a clarification.

We check the photo through Yandex. Right-click on the avatar and select “Find Yandex Photo.” If there are matches, we have a fake.

How to spot a fake account on social networks?

As you can see, there are three different girls in the search, but one photo.

Second point: we check the avatar with the other photos. If there is a discrepancy, we refrain from dialogue.

Important: do not transmit any personal information until you are sure that this is an ordinary person and not a professional scammer.

How to find user comments on VKontakte

1. To find other people's comments on VK, you will need input data. These are communities or user pages where we will look for them.

If you already have these communities or pages in mind, move on to step two. If not, you can use groups and publics where this person is a member as input data.

The Target Hunter Analysis > Target Communities .

In the input data we insert a link to the person we are interested in
Leave the remaining fields empty
As a result, the Communities parameter was set to 10,000
If desired, the value can be edited or deleted
Launch the task ( Play below) and wait for it to complete
As a result of the completed task, we have a list of communities

It is important to know ! If the user's profile type is Private , nothing will be collected. If his profile type is Public , but groups are hidden, only public pages will be collected. Publics cannot be hidden.

2. Then the fun begins: with this list of communities, we go to the Collect tool > Comments .

If there are specific communities that you want to check, paste links to them into the input window. And go below to Select audience .

Above the input data window, select the last fourth icon in the form of a book. Click Select tasks and click on the plus sign next to the collected list of communities.

Close the window and go downstairs
In the Users whose comments should be taken into account click Select audience
In the window that opens, insert a link to the page of the person whose comments you want to find
Click Apply

Next you need to set the period for which to collect comments. And also check the boxes in the required blocks and run the task.

After completing the task, click on the name
We see a list of all collected comments from a person
If you click on First Name Last Name , the parser will redirect us directly to the post and comment itself
Elementary!

3. How to find a person’s comments everywhere in VK, without communities?

Unfortunately, you won’t be able to find a person’s comments on VK without input data. The entire VK is a huge layer of information (posts, materials, communities, users). And to process it, you need the same huge resources.

You can use Search > Communities > Key phrase to find communities on a specific topic or communities in the same city. And then look for comments on each database separately.

Or collect that user's friends and followers using Collect > Friends . And then look for comments on their pages.

What do profile photos tell us?

The average person's photographs are different. “Here, I’m in the museum. So, I went on vacation to Sochi. So, I go to the gym, etc.” If you see photos near an expensive car or in a spa, and all the photos are of the same nature (and, often, without a face) - this is a fake.

Sometimes it gets ridiculous; The scammer doesn't give a damn.

A large number of subscribers - what does this mean?

This speaks, most often, about cheating. If the page does not belong to some famous person who objectively has 100 friends/buddies, and the rest are fans, then you should think about why you should even start a dialogue with such a user.

Where to find and how to send a link to your Instagram account?

What is a spy bot in VK?

There is no specific one instrument under this name. At the moment there are several, at least five working bots that perform the same function. Only their prices are different. But the operating algorithm is similar. Here are some of them that are the most popular:

vk.me/botspion - at the time of creation of the review, the bot community has more than 3,000 members. New publications appear every day, which means that the service is working and supported. The functionality of the bot is shown in the screenshot below.
vk.me/chasebot is a similar bot maintained by this community of less than a thousand members. Publications in the group are more or less recent. The functions are similar.
vk.me/4pionbot - there are more than 1,000 members in the bot community and there are recent publications. The functions are shown in the screenshot below and are similar to those described above.

All of these bots can be enabled and used in the same way. Therefore, we will show an example of one of them and give a review.

Click on the bot link. It is indicated in the bot community on VK and starts at vk.me.
A bot window will open, where to start, you need to click on “Write a message“.
The bot will open in your VKontakte conversation. Click "Get Started".
An introductory message appears. Usually it contains a brief description of the bot’s function, user agreement, etc. Click "Analyze Profile".
Enter the link to the profile you want to spy in the message field and click on the send button.
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As a result, you will see brief information about the analyzed user. More detailed information can be seen after payment. For example, in the screenshot below the price is 49 rubles. All spy bots have different prices.

All the spy bots described above and other similar ones in VK are launched in exactly the same way as shown in the screenshot above.

What's worth checking out on your list of interesting pages?

The only information that interests us is subscription to all kinds of closed clubs. Most often, these are 18+ public pages. When creating an account, scammers subscribe to the most popular communities to demonstrate their “humanity,” so a list of interesting pages is not particularly helpful.

Looks like a pretty normal account.

VKontakte user's wall - what does it tell?

Tells whether the account is fake or not. If you receive a “Hello” message, and on the user’s page there is something like this (see the screenshot below) – ignore it.

How to find a person’s account on all existing social networks?

Traffic analysis for VK page promotion

The Traffic tab provides information about the number of unique visitors to a page per day or per month.

IMPORTANT! A unique visitor is a visitor with a unique IP address who spent two minutes or more on the page. Those users who visited the page and immediately closed it are taken into account in the “Views” graph.

Of particular interest is the diagram showing the age composition and gender of visitors. Analyzing these indicators will help you more clearly formulate your content strategy and write posts that meet the needs of a specific target audience.

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Another interesting parameter is “Geography”. It allows you to get an idea of the cities and countries from where the promoted page is viewed. This is especially true for commercial pages that sell goods or services tied to a specific location.

Here you can see from which devices users most often view the page. Why is it important? The appearance of the page on a PC screen and a smartphone screen can vary significantly. If users frequently view updates from a mobile device, you should pay close attention to the usability of the mobile version of the page.

Just below you can see a graph that shows the dynamics of growth in the number of subscribers. Data is stored here both about those who recently subscribed to the page and about those who are no longer interested in its content. All monthly data is easily summarized in one chart, which makes it easier to analyze page activity.

Video, audio, registration date and profile information

About audio and video. Fakes do not add media content very often. Quite often this is done pro forma: you just need to fill your account with something. However, it is worth remembering that ordinary users also may not add anything to their VKontakte page.

The date of registration is also a controversial point. A person could delete the page and create a new one. However, a fake is always a fresh account. There are very few “long-lasting” fake pages - they are actively banned by the VKontakte administration.

Profile information is an additional indicator. If there are no photos in the profile, but there is a description, this could be a very real person. Like the example below.

In this case, there is also information in the profile, but this is fake. We do not particularly focus on the information he uses.

How to view activity history via phone

Going into the history of VK activity is quite simple. You don't have to download any apps or programs. All you need to do is run a few commands:

Go to your page through a browser, opening the full version;
In the upper right corner, click on the icon, which will take you to the settings menu;
Select “Security”;
Next, click on “Show activity history.”

Now you can monitor visits to your page and see when and at what time they were made. You can also click on “End all sessions” to secure the page in case you suspect a login from someone else’s device.

Let's sum it up

Distinguishing a fake from a real page is not so difficult. A fake is always “charged”: from the first message he will offer you something, and then you will begin to doubt more and more. You will see that there are no photos, no information, the page is empty - that’s it, we’ll file a corresponding complaint. However, it is better to be overly attentive than to start communicating with a scammer. Be extremely careful!

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How to improve statistics

We figured out how to view statistics on VK. But looking at it is not enough; you need to do something for its positive dynamics. I will give you advice on your personal page, group and advertising post. By using them, you can improve your statistics in all respects.

From personal page:

TA. For coverage to grow, posts must be relevant to the target audience. Analyze what gender, age your subscribers are, where they live. Track activity - at what time and what posts they look at the most. Be data-driven and raise interesting topics;
Gratitude. Thank users for actions on the page, so the person feels important and valuable. This is not difficult for you, and customer loyalty will increase significantly;
Personal. Tell users a little about your personal life. These could be some stories or interesting cases. This way you will show the client that you communicate with him on an equal basis, this will strengthen your contact;
Video. Don't limit yourself to photos. Useful and educational video content for your audience will attract much more attention, since this format uses two channels of perception at once;
Activity. Show it in relation to other pages, like, comment, and also repost your colleagues’ posts, share your professionalism with each other;
Reaction. Do not ignore the activity of people on your page. Add them to your friends, so you will definitely attract his attention, and with a high probability, he will visit your page.

By group:

Home button. Make any action quick and simple for the user - click on a button to: find out details, call, go to your company’s website, place an order, etc.;
Longreads. Make them a must-have on your wall. This format of materials for VKontakte is one of the most viewed: a longread allows you to expand on the topic, show maximum advantages and your expertise;
Community messages. Set up this option so that subscribers can ask you questions, this will maintain communication between you;
Call to action. The most important rule: the easier the action, the less it obliges the client, the higher the conversion will be. There are different calling formulas, read more in the blog and choose the one that suits you;
Goods . If they are, then connect them to the group. Product cards are necessary to increase sales. It is better if they are decorated in the same style of the group. This will become an additional factor of trust in the product;
Search for partners. Constantly monitor other groups that are also interested in activity, look for partners and enter into cooperation with them;
Reviews. Post not only positive, but also negative reviews and show how you solve the client’s problem. The fact that you can solve it, rather than walk away from it, will significantly increase your reputation;

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According to the advertising post:

Segmentation. Don't spread yourself thin and don't try to create a post for everyone. Select the most promising segment of your target audience and create an advertising post in a way that will be relevant to them - geographically, demographically, by interests, etc.;
Budget. Test your ads on minimal budgets first. Create several headlines and images, test and select the best ones, this will allow you to save money;
Term. Consider the optimal placement period; it is better to first take the bare minimum, which can then be extended, than vice versa;
Subject. Focus it on what is important and valuable to your potential client. Point out his basic need, press on the main pain, problem;
Site selection . When setting up advertising, choose to display it on both mobile devices and the browser version. This way there will be more coverage. The only exception is if advertising is aimed at PC or phone users;
Periodicity. Post in the community 1-2 times a week, so users won’t get bored with the posts.